The Wilbour Plaque at the Brooklyn Museum.

The Magazine Antiques | January 1, 1997| | Copyright

The Wilbour Plaque (Pl. I) is named for the American Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour (1833-1896), who acquired it in 1881. As a scholar, Wilbour's greatest passion was for ancient inscriptions, although he also collected uninscribed objects, of which this plaque is the most famous.

A small fragment of limestone, the plaque bears two images in the characteristically Egyptian sculptural technique of stink relief, in which the figures are carved into the ground rather than raised above it. At the left is a king wearing the baglike headdress called a khat with the ...

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